Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18

Who these business men were we would
like to know. They must be few and far
between. And, unless they are paid to
to make this proposition, they must be
fools. What are the internal taxes?
Taxes on manufacture and sale of wills
key and other liquors and tobacco. The
income tax ,one of the justest of all taxes.
has already been taken of by the clamor
of those that were interested. and the
folly of those who were not. We have no
taxes more just than those on liquors
and tobacco, which nobody need use un-
less they have Il mind to, and which it
would be much better for them not to
use, and yet it would appear that a squad
of business men from Vermont had sent
on petition that these taxes be abo-
ished and that all the revenue be raised
upon those that to Il great extent are on
the necessaries of life, sugar, tea. etc.
Any party that undertakes to uphold
this folly will sink into obscurity, as it
ought to. And isn't the Republi-
can party constantly making mistakes?
Not satisfied with shouldering Blaine.
the champion of all monopolies. it
toades to Depew, the president of
great corporation, elects millionaire Sell
ators. instead of men of worth, from a
number of States, votes against the Beck
bill to quite an extent in the Senate.
fails of courage as in the Indiana legisla-
ture to insist upon its rights, and in many
ways shows that, now the war is over.
and slavery abolished, it has no great
principle to fight for. This leads me to
my last political topic the Rev DR.. Me
Glynn. \ brave man and true, one of
the great fighters for human rights and
human freedom of the worlds history.
The secular New York press. all the
press see, have been busy each day in
telling of his fall-the Times, Tribune,
Sun, Herald leading Brooklyn papers as
well, and | believe the World, though
that is shrewder than the other papers.
The situation is more truthfully eX-
pressed by the old story of the British
soldier; Hollo, Bill, I've got Tar
tar" 'Bring him here then IL can't
| he you NE
One more thing calls for mention-the
strike. This introduces the labor ques-
ton, and the greater problem of Ameri-
can life. Given corporations strong and
growing stronger, individuals of vast
wealth which they continue to roll up in
vaster proportions; the offset to this
those who have nothing but what they
earn by day labor, and those in extreme
poverty. Will society call a halt, La
Dor is trying to. | do not at this time
propose to discuss the main question. but
there is one thing | can tell the Knights.
Their strikes are not worth two and six
pence dozen. They don't hurt any
body seriously except those who strike.
The proposition suggested that they will
pay no rent has more significance and if
necessary might force arbitration in a
just cause.
Took dinner to-day with the Rev. DR..
Hall of the Trinity Episcopal church,
Brooklyn. The doctor is an old Bread
Loafer, where he has been repeatedly
with his family His church is the larg-
est Episcopal church in Brooklyn, and
the handsomest church edifice, probably,
in this country. The doctor is a great
man in intellect, and greater one in
worth. lie is one of the salt of the
earth. head and heart both level. The
doctor, born Southerner, is a good
Democrat, and made, he told me, several
speeches during the campaign for Cleve-
land. He is acquainted with Henry
George, and thinks well of him, and
thinks his land theories deserve certain
amount of respect. The doctor endorses
DIR. McGlynn emphatically, and says
large number in the Catholic church GER
tainly will sustain him.
| attended this morning the service at
Dr. Halls. His discourse was on the
Sermon on the Mount, which he said
looked down upon all that had come be-
fore, the Old Testament with its law
and commandments, and upon all that
came after, the Apostles, Paul. and
the revelation of It. John: and was the
guide for every life.
This evening | attended the Baptist
church of DR.. Thomas. another Bread
Loafer. Mr.. Thomas is the leading Bap-
list clergyman, a very broad and very
fine man. Mr.. Thomas church il built Il
little on the operate principle. circling
down towards stage with a book rack
for pulpit, and back of the stage
circular arrangement for baptism, and
above it an immense organ. DR.. Thorn
; as remarks were plain and sensible upon
Christ's command to Matthew to follow
him. The music of the church was of
, the same kind, plain and sensible, and
very good. After came baptism of two
young girls. There was something
shocking about ii to me, as it was the